The students who have received the Academic Excellence Award for all four years are, (front row, from left) Cierra Collins, Jamie Embrey, Makayla Hill, Kalina Jurkowski, Alexander Burson, Loan Tran, Emma Thomas and Donovan Wiss. (Back row, from left) Superintendent Dr. Scott Patrick, Shane Ewing, Nicholas Piontek, Conor Tenbus, Lauren Landwehr, Renee Warden and Emily Wright.

(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) — A total of 150 Warrensburg High School students were recently recognized during the Warrensburg Schools Foundation’s 26^th annual Academic Excellence Awards Banquet for reaching the top 15 percent of their graduating class.

Twenty seniors were recognized for reaching and maintaining this level all four years of high school. All students received a medallion, designed especially for this event. The banquet took place on June 19.

During the banquet, the students heard a speech from WHS alumnus, Casey Laws, a fifth-grade teacher at Martin Warren Elementary School. He compared excellence to fire. He reviewed how the students have reached their academic excellence and encouraged the students to avoid the natural decay of a fire by throwing more logs onto their academic fires.

The following students were recognized:

Seniors

Danielle Agueros

Christine Brister

Alexander Burson

Anastasia Chaky

Rebecca Chambers

Bene Clear

Devon Clements

Cierra Collins

Jamie Embrey

Shane Ewing

Yusr Ghozzi

Georgia Harris

Makayla Hill

Ethan Holland

Macy Hoyer

Dawson Jones

Kalina Jurkowski

Lauren Landwehr

Mathew Martinez

Ashley McClain

Nicholas Piontek

Madisyn Rhone

Nicholas Rizzolo

Rachel Scott

Spencer Tauchen

Conor Tenbus

Emma Thomas

Loan  Tran

Renee Warden

Donovan Wiss

Emily Wright

Zoe Yandell

Huiyi Yao

Abdala Yousef

Juniors

Asma Ali

Taylor Atkins

Alexander Bistline

Karyn Blunt

Kelly Blunt

Samantha Callaway

Bridget Cavuoti

Kirsten Dale

Stephen Deyo

Emily Docheff

Celine Doss

Jonathan Duhamell

Dustin Dye

Rebecca Gangemella

Lexington Healey

Savannah Heath

Emily Henson

Gabrielle Hill

Sang Jin Hyun

Alexis Kengor

Isaac  Kohl

Nathan Kreher

Alison Landrum

Samantha Loranger

Nathaniel Miller

Holly  Miller

Caeley Nuss

Julia Rankin

Cierra Reynolds

Benjamin Richner

Robert Richner

Jillian Samson

Jacob Sauther

Nicole Schneider

Kylie Schrader

Regan Slaughter

Jessica Tiller

Peter Voskovitch

Garren Wegener

Sophomores

Brett Ballard

Benjamin Bissen

Jordon Bowder

Ashleigh Burnett

Rhiannon Clifton

Brandice Coats

Kaci English-Keithley

Aulden Harris

Fareha Hasan

Megan Herzog

Thomas Hitchcock

Jacob Hodkins

Mason Janvrin

Margaret Kohl

Rachel Lindquist

Brittany Marr

Olivia Metge

Anna Mori

Michael Nimmer

Megan Otto

Jodi Pedersen

Jada Pickett

Paige Purvis

Riley Purvis

Susan Roberts

Noah Roush

Morgan Schierenbeck

Kathryn Schumaker

Courtney Simons

Cassandra Slana

Kathryn Smith

Lewis Smith

Kaitlyn Tallman

Rebecca Thessen

Shelby Webb

Noah Weyrauch

Jason Williamson

Janna Yousef

Freshman

Nisa Adams

Spencer Brown

Taylor Brown

Clara Castro

Fantejah Chong-Yockeman

Malina Colburn

Mikhayla Dempsey

Cassandra Farrell

Natalee Fitzgerald

Iyanna Foster

Katherine Gostomski

Cecil Grainger

Madison Green

Rhianna Grisdale

Roslynn Grisdale

Natasha Hammond

Amreen Hasan

Samantha Hood

Carolyn Kreher

Hannah Kueck

Lindsey Landwehr

Natalie Leuschen

Kathleen Long

Sarah Lubaroff

Alyssa Markham

Jordan Milne

Carly Othic

Shelby Palmer

Emily Perkins

Hally Piontek

Holly Rose

Bernadette Schrag

Abigail Scott

Asher Shivley

Jenna Shore

Elizabeth Smith

Sarah Swainston

Monique Vargas

Maxlyn Wilbanks

For more information regarding the Academic Excellence Awards Banquet or other Warrensburg Schools Foundation activities, contact Meridith Sauer at 747-7823.